Chapter 47: I Can Read Your Thoughts...

"Here."

In Shelter 404, in the room next to the residents' hall, Chu Guang handed the bowl and spoon to Xia Yan who was leaning against the wall.

Seeing the meat and vegetables floating on the green wheat porridge, Xia Yan gulped. She couldn’t care if there was poison in it as she gulped it down as quickly as she could.

Since she could eat, it meant that she had almost recovered.

Watching the female mercenary gorging on the food, Chu Guang glanced at her right leg briefly. Although the severed limb could not be regenerated, the wound had basically closed. Even the scab around it started to fall off as new flesh would grow in time.

From the looks of it, the healing syringe was really effective.

It would be nice if I could get another one.

When Xia Yan had almost finished the food, Chu Guang said, "So, have you memorized everything now?"

Xia Yan placed the bowl down and nodded nervously.

To be honest, she wasn’t really confident. However, she was afraid that if she said no, she would be sold away as a slave to the farm nearby.

The person standing in front of her was a ruthless man! He tore a Creeper apart with his bare hand and didn’t even blink when he shot at his companion. She was afraid that he might do something even worse to her!

"Very good," Chu Guang nodded, "You can still rest up for one more day. You will officially start working the day after tomorrow."

Xia Yan asked nervously, "Speaking of which, what does the owner of the weapon shop do?"

Chu Guang looked at her and mumbled, "It's what your job is here. You've finished memorizing the lines, but you still don't know?"

Xia Yan had a confused expression and she didn’t understand what she was meant to do.

Chu Guang sighed.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, my assistant Little Seven will give you induction training. You only need to complete everything according to my orders.”

"Also, I don’t care about what you call me anywhere else. When there are other people present, you have to address me as your Administrator, understand?”

Xia Yan nodded. "Understood..."

Chu Guang raised an eyebrow and gave it a shot. "You can try calling me that now."

"Administrator." Xia Yan bowed her head and said submissively.

Huh? She learned pretty fast.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Chu Guang was satisfied with her attitude and he nodded. He handed her a chocolate-flavored lollipop.

"Very good. This is an after meal dessert, you can have it."

Xia Yan took the lollipop with a blank face and she stared at it in a daze. She seemed to be thinking of something.

Chu Guang honestly didn’t care what she was thinking about.

Not wanting to stay in the room any longer, he closed the door before turning around to leave. He returned to the surface. His first task was to grab Little Seven from the upper floor of the nursing home before driving the players back to the shelter like an old farmer herding a group of ducks.

Login permissions were locked to prevent anyone from not going to sleep in the middle of the night.

Of course... That was with the exception of Garbage who was still scouting the region. With that, all 29 other players returned to their world.

After returning to his computer, Chu Guang opened the forum.

Unsurprisingly, as soon as the players took off their helmets, the first thing they did wasn’t wash their faces or brush their teeth. They immediately logged onto the official website of Wasteland Online.

The moment when the players just went offline was the most lively time of the day on the official forum.

It was especially since a massive bomb was released three hours ago!

Less than three days after the alpha 0.2 version went online, the 0.3 version had arrived. Looking at the content of this update, it actually contained a lot more than the previous version!

There was no need to pin the post at all!

The post that Chu Guang posted on the forum as a game designer replaced Ample Time’s analysis post. It instantly became the greatest hit in the entire forum.

Old White: ??? The most diligent official in history! A big update every three days and a small update once a day, I love it!

Hold_the_sword_execution: I'm in tears, we will finally be paid for missions in the future!

- T.T

Night Ten: What do you mean? Didn’t you get paid before? Are contribution points and favorability not counted as wages? (?° ?? ?°)

Ample Time: Wait a minute, I have a question! Does this mean that there will be no contribution points for daily tasks in the future?

Gale: Fuck!

Hold_the_sword_execution: Shit!

Night Ten: No, buddy! Don't be like this! (Panic)

Kakarot_from_the_future: In fact, there is another small detail we need to pay attention to. 2000 contribution points will allow us to upgrade our citizenship. Will there be missions that only citizens can take, but residents can’t?

The_Escaping_Mole: Wuwu, I want to build a house! Don't stop me from building a house! What happens if you don’t buy land to build a house?

Irene: It’s probably illegal. (?° ?? ?°)

Makka_Pakka: Building a house is not interesting at all, I want to farm! Damnit, what can 5 square meters of land possibly grow?! (anger)

As usual, those players were focusing on strange places.

Chu Guang obviously just wanted to express that they would receive money for completing missions and work in the future. However, what players were concerned about was difficulty receiving contribution points in the future!

Moreover, they seemed to have misunderstood the updated identity system and private land system.

Of course, no one could blame them. After all, Chu Guang didn’t really give a clear explanation.

Light: Everyone, please calm down. I just finished work, and heard the forum’s moderators say that you have a lot of questions about the new update! Let me explain it in detail.

- First of all, players who have obtained the qualification for the closed alpha should have already discovered that the map is an open world concept and that the actual game area is pretty large. In fact, it’s almost endless! The safe area that the shelter outpost can provide is limited.

- The 5 square meters of private land can be understood as the private space inside the fence provided by the outpost. Players can build houses on their own land, as long as the height does not exceed the nursing home located in the center of the base.

- If you want to increase the area of ??your private territory, in addition to working hard to obtain contribution points to improve your status, you can also cooperate with your friends, develop together, and share your land.

- Of course, there will definitely be a small number of players who want to know if they can build a house outside the fence if they don’t have their own land but still wish to build a house.

- The answer is yes. We promised that players can freely use their creativity to transform the world, and the server will retain these transformations. This is one of the core gameplay mechanics!

- However, it should be noted that free construction is only a function supported by the server! Players can use this function but also need to pay attention to the rules set by the NPC. After all, in the setting, all of you are players of Shelter 404.

- The territory of the outpost is not only demarcated by the fence but also includes defensive buffer zones, agricultural areas, etc. outside the wall. As long as these lands are not occupied and players' actions do not pose a threat to the public safety and facilities of the outpost, players can freely build whatever they want.

- It should be noted that these facilities outside the territory are not protected by the shelter.

- In addition, since the scale of the outpost will continue to change as it develops, the nearby land may be included in the new territory at any time. Therefore, for your gaming experience, please choose a place a little farther away from the outpost if you want to test your own creativity.

- If your building is accidentally included in the territory of the outpost, don't worry too much. The benevolent Administrator will not immediately demolish the illegal building but will give its owner thirty days to make the appropriate changes.

- During this thirty day period, you will have the right to prepare and do whatever you need in order to purchase the land. Whether it is to upgrade your status or cooperate with other players. As long as you buy the land you built, you can keep your once illegal building. We have a very considerate setting here.

- Of course, if the player does not exercise the right of first refusal within thirty days, the administrator can only recover the land in accordance with the management regulations of the shelter. The illegal buildings will be confiscated and you will enter the asset disposal process.

- In the asset disposal process, the administrator will decide whether to demolish the building, list it as a public facility, or auction it according to the purpose and quality. According to the way the building is disposed of, the administrator will give the player who lost the land a certain amount of compensation.

- In addition, I have to mention that the current currency is only a temporary currency in the closed alpha stage. This is a very important point.

- At the end of the test phase, we will consider using digital currency and electronic accounting to integrate the currency system with the attribute panel and present it directly to players in a visual interface, just like those games you play on traditional PCs. Attributes, properties, etc. will be available for checking at any time!

- However, it is not easy to implement this function. It involves many complex technical issues. Please be patient and give our production team some time!

- By the way, we will invite twenty players in the new update and I believe some lucky ones should have already received the invitation emails. Please check if you did.

- I have been working overtime the entire night last night. I have to sleep for a while. If you have any questions, you can leave a message below this post. I will reply when I wake up!

Of course, Chu Guang didn't sleep.

The sky in the wasteland was just getting dark, and it was not yet six thirty in the evening. If he went to bed so early, he might wake up in the middle of the night. What would he do then?! He didn’t have a game helmet that could let him pass the time in another world.

It was better to check what the players were chatting about anyway.

As Chu Guang expected, just less than two minutes after his post was updated, the replies below the post exploded again.

Battlefield_hype_up_group: Nice! Got an official explanation!

Failed_successfully: Brother Light! It is you!

Sweaty_palms: Please, just give me a chance! Please invite me as well!

This_lord_is_arrogant_what_can_you_do: Keep acting. I don’t believe it at all. I repeat, there are no fully immersive virtual reality games in this world. The replies above are all bots! Anyone that is not a bot in the forum, please don't be fooled by the people from the Bull and Horse group! They are a bunch of trolls!

Irene: Wait, there are really people in this forum? I thought they were all my alt accounts. (?° ?? ?°)

Quit_smoking: Fuck me. 20 new invitations?! Why didn't I receive any in my mailbox?!

Big_eyes_in_debt: Hahahahaha, I received it!

That_touch_of_longing: +1, haha!

Huh?

This_lord_is_arrogant_what_can_you_do? I've seen this ID before. He seems to be from the Bull and Horse Club.

However, Chu Guang didn't expect the guy to actually register an account in the forum.

Didn't he keep saying that this official website was a malware site? Why did he register an account now?

Chu Guang clicked on the account to take a look, and he was even more amused.

The dude actually also applied for the closed alpha test, and he applied right after Chu Guang raised the application requirement.

Chu Guang smiled in his heart and didn't take the fellow’s remarks seriously.

In the forum, he was not the only one who did not believe that the game really existed.

What Chu Guang had to do was to screen twenty more reliable players from more than three hundred applications.

His methods included, but were not limited to; analyzing users through forum history chat, answer scores, activity status, and online time.

As someone who had done sales before, he was great at judging people!